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DISSOLUTION 



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THE UNION, 



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ITS INEVITABLE RESULTS, 



UNLESS 



NATIONAL PRAYERS ARE OFFERED UP TO THE SUPREME RULER 
OF THE UNIVERSE, 



EMINENT DIVINES AGAIN INVOKE THE AID OF HEAVEN TO PRESERVE 
THE I'NION UNIMPAIRED TO THE LATEST POSTERITY. 



BY NATHAN FARRAR 

A SELK-EDUCATKU CITIZEN OF ARKANSAS. 



LOUISVILLE, KY.: 

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DISSOLUTION 



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THE UNION, 



AND 



ITS INEVITABLE RESULTS, 



UNLESS 



NATIONAL PRAYERS ARE OFFERED UP TO THE SUPREME RULER 
OF THE UNIVERSE, 



EMINENT DIVINES AGAIN INVOKE THE AID OF HEAVEN TO PRESBRVB 
THE UNION UNIMPAIRED TO THE LATEST POSTERITY. 



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BY NATHAN ^FARRAR, 

A 8BLF-EDUCA.TBO CITIZBN Or ARKANSAS. 




LOUISVILLE, KY.: 

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. 
1860. 



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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by NATHAN FARRAR, 
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern 
District of Missouri. 



INTRODUCTION, 



In giving myself an introduction to the public for the first 
time, I have not many apologies to make, as my position speaks 
for itself, when it becomes well known to the American people, 
that I have not the honor of being a collegian or professor of 
practical philosophy. Therefore, I deem it expedient to say as little 
as possibhi in praise of myself or literary productions. Let pub- 
lic mind give an unprejudiced verdict, whether I shall have 
the freedom of this entire confederacy in introducing my work in 
this enlightened age of progress, and I will abide the decision 
of my countrymen, where it does not come in direct antagonism 
to the obligations that I am* under to the Supreme Kuler of na- 
tions. The problem is about being solved, to prove to the civ- 
ilized world whether man is capable of self-government, or 
national jurisprudence, in its energetic measures, is competent 
to triumph amid political factions ; and whether our national 
law-givers in their collected wisdom, will meet the impending 
crisis with invincible prowess, and put down disunion forever, 
and its coadjutors as traitors to their country, branded in 
eternal infamv. 



DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION: 



AND 



ITS INEVITABLE RESULTS 



BY NATHAN FARRAB, 
A Self-Educated Citizen of Arkansas. 



CHAPTER I. 



That a corrupt press should pander to the baser passions of 
men, inciting corrupt morals, engendering a morbid state of the 
public mind, is a fallacy upon a nation's cupidity, and proves 
that "something is rotten in Denmark." That a Northern revo- 
lutionary element is moving its ponderous machinery to extin- 
guish constitutional slavery in the Southern States, is evident 
from the signs of the times. 

What is the South to do upon these disruptions of civil war ? 
To sit supinely inactive, and sell their birth-right for a mess of 
pottage, while the incendiaries' torch is firing their dwel- 
lings, and abolition conspirators are murdering their wives and 
children. "In times of peace, prepare for war." But the 
South will not be justifiable by the mandates of heaven in 
making war upon the North, only to stand upon the defensive. 

When a hostile Northern army invades Southern soil, then 
the Union is dissolved forever; and no diplomacy can ever 
again cement our moral, social, commercial and political bonds 
in a nation's brotherhood, and our death-knell will be sounded 
in a dirge to human liberty; then, and not till then, will the 
South have the inalienable rights to withdraw from the North, 
gain its independence and assume its position among tJbie nations 
of earth. When Congress ceases its protection to Southern 



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institutions, the tenor of these grounds will be feasible, and 
should be written upon the tablet of the human heart. The 
laws of nations cannot abrogate this universal suffrage, P 
may by an arbitrary power of war, force a nation to become 
vascillating slaves; but it can not annul the immutable laws of 
God, planted within the human soul. 

The Constitution of the United States has various powers 
delegated to the instniment. It recognizes slavery in the 
Southern States, but has delegated its powers to the respective 
States, and the slave-holders; therefore, rendering its supervis- 
ion futile as to liberating the slaves. Slaves are recognized as 
bona fide property of the Southern planters, which I construe 
in the abstract meaning of the term, the same as real estate. 
No internal or external combination can supplant a citizen's 
right in his possession by establishing or changing a govern- 
ment, either by foreign or civil war; nor the mutual consent of 
contracting parties seize or transfer individual real estate and 
personal property, only in case of invasion, when a citizen 
flees his country, and confiscates his possessions to the fortunes 
of war. Even a sovereign State, in its jurisdiction, has no 
delegated power to abolish slavery in its domain. There is no 
power but heaven; and the owners of slaves themselves, that 
has a legal and divine right to set the slaves free, and then not 
till the sanction of divine law is fulfilled, by the redemption of 
the entire continent of heathen and benighted Africa from a 
state of barbarism, and the curse placed upon the black man, 
by the Almighty, is removed. When Africa becomes civilized, 
enlightened and christianized throughout its vast domain, this 
grand design, planned by the wisdom of the Supreme Ruler of 
nations, will take a long line of centuries to accomplish, as the 
infant colony of Liberia, founded upon African shores in 1821, 
is making but slow ])rogres8 in the grand drama of human des- 
tiny. The freedom of the seas — a highway of nations — is open 
to the commerce of the civilized world; a peaceable merchant 
ship sailing from New- York to Canton, can not be interupted or 
seized upon the ocean by treaty stipulations of international law. 



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CHAPTER 11. 

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The question of intervention, or non-intervention, may come 
up in the present congress, 1860. All that congress has any 
kgal right to do by constitutional law, is to admit slavery into 
the territories antf'to protect the institution so long as territori- 
al government is recognized, and when admitted into the Union 
as a sovereign State, the powers of congress are abrogated . So 
far as slavery is concerned the people have an inalienable right 
to form their constitutional laws in protecting their person, 
property, and in pursuit of happiness, by acknowledging their 
obligations to the general government. There is a more serious 
matter of controversy dragging its ponderous length along by 
the way side, shedding crocodile tears for the better condition 
of well fed and well clothed slaves of the South, than northern 
freedom, dare have the pusillanimous presumption to give their 
idols, the southern slaves, whom the North fains to worship in 
mock adulations of heathenish sacrilege ; and in their hypocrisy 
to worship mammon as the pretended god of their aspirations in 
all earthly avocations, their pretenses are false and vascillating 
as an emperor's iron will. Need I mention old Brown with his 
myrmydon at Harper's Ferry ? This is only a vanguard of 
Black Republicans from the North ; emmissaries of treason and 
conspiracy, to force the South into civil war, or give up their 
slaves to the cupidity of Northern amalgamation, rapine and mur- 
der. This, the South will never do, but exclaim in the lanuage 
— if I mistake not, of the immortal Emmet, who exclaimed to 
the tribunal who had condemned him to death, that "the liberty 



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of his country could never be enslaved, only by walking over 
his dead body." This hydra-monster begins to asssume a for- 
midable shape, and will have gained culminating points in its 
position of oligarchy, when congress has two-thirds majority in 
the House of Representatives and in the Senate. Then the 
South may truly have some just grounds of alarm for their do- 
mestic institutions ; but no fear of personal cowardice can be 
imputed to Southern patriotism. The love of wife and children, 
home and country, causes warm Southern blood to flow within 
their veins with pulsations of human philanthropy. Let an in- 
telligent down-east Yankee from the State of Maine, who has 
responsible references, travel even in the State of South Carolina, 
and call at a wealthy planter's house, he will be received with 
true Southern hospitality ; invited into the j^lor, and present- 
ed with a jack-knife and shingle to keep him from whittling the 
mahogany furniture ; but the defenseless Southern citizen in 
protecting their wives and children from the inroads of North- 
ern conspirators, polluting Southern soil with disunion and 
civil war, calls for a united action of Southern element to 
counteract this dogma, that is about to dismember this Union 
and engulf it in the vortex of revolutions. And the putrilica- 
tion of ages will only serve to sink this republic still deeper in 
oblivion's silent chambers, and the dark mass of human pollu- 
tion, will receive its inevitable doom amid the wreck of time 
and the crush of worlds. To avoid this direful calamity of a 
nation's dissolution, and a continent becoming vascillating slaves 
to the grasping ambition of European despotism, that is only 
waiting until our funeral dirge to human liberty is wafted across 
the ocean, then the British Lion will sound the tocsin of war, 
and the combined powers of Europe will blot out this republic 
from the list of nations, and it will no longer remain on the map 
of North America. Let the American people again unite in a 
sublime compact and grand pavilion of united freeman, who 
know their rights and will maintain them and keep the Union 
together at all hazards. Let these words " union at ail hazards," 
be inscribed in letters of gold upon our country's banners, and 



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our national flag ; let an executive committee be organized at 
Washington D. C, to appoint the Fourth of July to hold a 
national mass meeting to get signers to the Union, now and for- 
ever, at the Capital of the United States, and should tne major- 
ity of voters throughout the confederacy pledge their names, 
their lives, and their sacred honor, and whatever differences of 
opinion as to domestic intitutions, that they will still remain 
in a consolidated brotherhood of a national compact, and that 
no foreign foe can ever enslave their country, only by walking 
over their dead bodies. And also, let a national thanksgiving 
be held, offering up the prayers of the continent to the Disposer 
of human events, and the sublime conclave will be heard in 
heaven, and the Union again safe from intestine faction and 
foreign war, notwithstanding there is visible in the North a 
black and threatening cloud, hovering over the political horizon 
that portends an approaching tempest. However, be this as it 
may, let not the Southerners flee to the mountains for safety, 
but remain upon the plain where it requires united action to 
present a formidable front, by Southern legislatures appropriat- 
ing munitions of war in the case of necessity, that a black re- 
publican mongrel, or amalgamationist should take his unenvied 
seat at the White House on the fourth of March — before one 
year had recorded its annals in history, the black president, 
(that is in principles) preferring the disinterested interest of 
black negroes to the essential interest of the white men, he 
would wish himself private Secretary or Prime Minister to a 
heathen king of central Africa, to represent his barbarian gov- 
ernment at the court of St. James, and refused. A peaceable 
withdrawal of the South from the North on amicable terms 
which my reputation will stand or fall upon, the prediction of 
these issues. I have lived too long in the South not to know 
something of the public Southern mind upon political questions, 
that causes their arteries to vibrate and keep in motion their 
living souls. If the North refuses to give up the South only 
through the power of civil war, then the South wil no .longer 
remain idle with luke warm Southern fire-eaters ; it will, upon 



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short notice, hold a Southern convention, setting forth a de- 
claration of independence and a constitutional government, 
containing provisional powers, that will guarantee protection of 
person, property, pursuit of happiness. It is self-evident from 
passing events, and the signs of the times, that the prediction 
of wise men will be verified ; even the founders of this Repub- 
lic had their misgivings as to the permanent duration of this 
grandest achievement in the annals of time, or in the modern 
progress : the founding of a government based upon the sover- 
eign rights of the people, but has emerged from the thraldom of 
England only to get into civil war, fraught with more direful 
calamities of human suflering than the time that tried men's 
souls; when Washington's men were marching in the colony of 
New Jersey, and could be tracked bare foot by the blood upon 
the snow, to secure the liberty we now enjoy, which are about 
slipping from our grasp, to embrace christian liberty, as North- 
Methodist have withdrawn from Southern — one of the most fatal 
fallacies to the dismemberment of this Union, though religion is 
not connected with government only under its protection, still 
it has a tendency to estrange different portions of our common 
country and scatter seeds of discord that will root out every 
principle of liberty, and establish upon its ruins a Republican 
despotism. 



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CHAPTER III. 

Eminent divines and popular statesmen have written ponder- 
ous volumes upon the momentous question of solving a prob- 
lem that has kept the civilized world in a state of feverish ex- 
citement for the last quarter of a century, of the wisest plan to 
free Southern slaves, without coming to any ultimate results 
as to bettering the slaves or ameliorating their condition, or re- 
conciling the masters to part with what the God of heaven had 
given them to keep as their own, acting as appointed stewards 
by the Law-Giver of nations, until the consummation of those 
divine blessings bestowed upon the slaves Bhall have reached 
the benighted regions of African barbarism. Then it would 
be reasonable to suppose that the masters of slaves would be 
willing to be governed by the mandates of heaven, as a wicked 
rabble of Northern fanaticism and European element had failed 
thus far to convince the slave-holders that they were committing 
an imaginary ein, which, in fact, proves that they were only 
obeying Deity's higher law, while the North was groveling in a 
servitude more servile and vascillating than Southern slavery, 
the hired servants of Northern aristocracy. 

Kind reader, if I am too personal in my views upon abstract 
questions, and should wound the refined feelings of human nature, 
I beg your pardon and humbly ask forgiveness for my Aveakness, 
as no personal fear of my own should be an obstacle in my 
pathway, to do my duty to my God and my country. But my 
general views will be understood as national, which the liberty 
of speech and the press gives its sanction, to correct abuses and 



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institute njitional reforms that shall give a religious tone to so- 
ciety, and a healthy action to public sentiment, which has a 
moral tendency to remove a sickly sentimentality that pervades 
the public mind in popular credulity, that causes the masses to 
flock to the standard, be it a Jew or pagan, thus the various 
isms of the day are fast approaching a climax, that will prove a 
fallacy of contradictory absurdities. My province is to notice 
national errors, and political corruption that does not coincide 
in accordance with truth and justice, new inventions, the art 
and science are progressing, while the moral hemisphere is 
blighted with mill dew, and domestic affairs are fast verging 
into barbarism, putrifaction reigns in the Senate house, while 
fanaticism gathers around the volcano of vampires to be 
engulphed in one common ruin; but as a modern Cataline was 
about conspiring against the laws of his country, a wailing was 
heard. Stephen A. Douglas had arisen with the fire of patriot- 
ism, enkindling his love of Union, and exclaiming in the lan- 
guage of the immortal Jackson, "By the eternal, let the Yankee 
abolition conspirators come on by legions, I do not fear them 
all, I will vindicate the honor of my country, and stand up to 
the Union until the enemy walks over my dead body, or until 
the aid of heaven preserves this Union, unimpaired to the 
latest posterity." The traitors cowered beneath his potent sway 
and invincible prowess. Fellow-citizens of the Senate, the 
most auspicious moment has arrived, in the annals of the world, 
the long pent-up fires of popular delusion is about assuming its 
zenith of power, and forms a striking contrast to the tyrant 
Nero, who played upon his harp while Rome was burning. 
Time will prove whether this nation is to be broken up into 
fragments, and cast to the four winds, and a despot's iron will 
to desecrate the tomb of Washington. Oh, sacred liberty! hast 
thou listened to the siren's song, until the heavens are darkened 
and the sun refuses to shine upon a nation of slaves that have 
foundered upon the last wreck of human rights, while the bois- 
terous ocean, as if in mockery of the last expiring hopes of 
freemen, wafts the frail bark upon heathen shores, and there to 



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ielve for centuries in barbarism, with the lineal descendants of 
Bam, in a charnel-house of putrifaction. This may, conse- 
quently, be the inevitable doom of Northern Yankee conspira- 
:ors who are not so fortunate as the leaders of disunion, to re- 
3eive their retribute justice, by being hung upon the gallows as 
tiigh as Haaman. The question arises, what is the wisest policy 
Df Northern conservative union men, in case of necessity, 
5vhich is the mother of invention, would indicate to unite with 
;he South in founding and forming a Southern republic, upon a 
basis with principle, as broad as the universe, and as high as 
the heavens, invoking the divine aid of the Law-Giver of 
uations, embracing the sublime religious ordeal of man's des- 
tiny, and to ignore every innovation of demagogues to im- 
molate or undermine the fairest fabric ever established by the 
honor of man, which implants upon all a true sense of their 
obligations to their God and to their country ; and with im- 
maculate accuracy to the solution of their happiness here on 
earth and in heaven, that the capacity of self-government is 
interwoven with the inalienable rights of man. 

No observing mind can deny that there are rights to which 
man is created, that no sophistry of government can abjure 
or abrogate. Man, the noblest work of our Creator, stands 
pre-eminent in his exalted being — circumnavigates the globe, 
plants colonies upon foreign shores; establishes governments 
that rise and fall in a succession of succeeding revolutions, 
without even solving the problem that man is as free as the 
air of heaven he breathes ; and lovely woman, a little lower 
than the angels, like the tresiled vine around the sturdy oak, 
entwines her caressing affections around man's asperity, and 
softens his cares to the tomb. 

To return, again, to the subject in question, what is to be 
the area, and boundary, of this greatest achievement in the 
annals of the world, or in modern times. A Southern Con- 
federacy is to extend from north latitude, thirty-six degrees to 
the Isthmus of Darien, and from the Atlantic to the Sand- 
wich Islands, including the entire Archipelago; also, includ- 



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m(j; the Queen of the Antilles — Cuba — with its sunny clime; 
and the Capitol to be built upon the mins of Montezuma's 
Palace, in the environs of the City of Mexico. However, it 
is reasonable to suppose that the first Congress will convene 
in Memphis, Tennessee, and open its deliberate body of wise 
statesmen to organize a provisional government in Mexico, 
and Central America; and after having reconciled those re- 
fractory colonies as recognized citizens, in the Southern North- 
American Ilepublic, the seat of government will be removed 
to the City of Mexico; and it is not likely that the noto- 
rious fillibuster. Walker, will even get an appointment in the 
Cabinet, as he holds to a manifest destiny, that the whole 
continent is ours ; but this is grasping too much and engen- 
dering the very element of liberty into a despotism. When a 
body of men gets into profligacy and effeminate luxury, they 
will fall into loathsomeness and ruin, and their enemies will 
pillage their dwellings, committing upon their defenseless 
wives and daughters rapine and murder until the hearts of those 
demon fiends have become callous in gazing upon the hecatomb 
of human skulls of their slaughtered victims, a mournful 
monument to the degeneracy of mankind, that walks in a list- 
less apathy; that, ignoring the very noblest emanations of the 
human heart. A Hogarth could not paint the scene of dark 
despair that hangs as a funeral pall over a nation of thirty-three 
millions of living souls. Our liberties are about passing under 
the car of Juggernaut, and a nation's virtue is lost in trying 
the test of contending factions, by the heart-rending alternative 
of civil war, which will be but a mockery of the Reign of Ter- 
ror in France. When the inhuman monster, Robespiere, hur- 
ried ofi" innocent men to the guillotine, until the sewers of 
Paris run with human blood, when the Southern Confederacy 
has established a footing commensurate with its geographical 
location, commercial treaties will be ratified with all civilized 
nations, and when the minister from the Northern American 
Republic presents his credentials to the Cabinet, at the Capital 
in the City of Mexico, due courtesy will be shown him even if 



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he is accompanied by his black wife and children, in 
order to be on friendly terms with the Black Republican govern- 
ment which he represents, as it is better to have friends than 
enemies. But still it would have been more in accordance with 
the principles of his government to have sent him either to Li- 
beria or Hayti — then his black family would have been taken 
into the president's house, and the best parlor given up to him. 
The following railroads will in due time occupy the attention 
of Congress, and eventually may be chartered: Memphis and 
Central America to the City of Mexico, and Isthmus of Darien; 
Vera Cruz and Acapulco, New Orleans and San Diego. These 
main arteries of commerce, will have a tendency to fraternize 
the civilized world. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

The civilized world has arrived at a period the most auspicious 
in the annals of time. Moral and enlightened progress is 
undermining rotten dynasties, and causing European Empires 
to marshal its forces ; and, like the dying gladiator, to conquer 
or perish Tn the combat, and establish perpetual despotisms or 
universal liberties ; and the United States, after a lapse of three 
quarters of a century, has gone into the annals of the past. 
Since the thirteen united colonies became free and independent, 
some pre-eminent statesman has made the discovery — I do not 
claim the honor of the discovery, only to make some prelimin- 
ary proposals, to bring it into a compact shape, that the issues 
may become plain to every intelligent mind — that majorities 
and minorities are in a direct antagonism to truth and justice in 
all deliberate bodies, in Congress, State Legislatures, and all 
other minor offices, in which constitutes the law-making power in 
every department of moral and civil government. I consider 
all laws void that is not founded upon the laws of our Creator, 
and no government can stand that sets at naught and tramples 
under foot the immaculate laws of Deity. 

Majorities claim the prerogative to make laws for the minority 
in which it has no representatives, as an equilibrium and bal- 
ance of power to prevent the majority from monopolizing and 
enslaving the minority. The minority should be equally repre- 
sented in the government ; that is, in a proportional ratio to the 
greater or lesser number of the majority. This reform of the 
people's rights should be adopted as an amendment to the Con- 



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stitution of the United States, and inserted in article thirteenth 
of amendments ; and all the officers of government should be 
reduced so far as to allow the minority the right to elect men to 
office to make up the number, the same as before the amendment 
was ratified. The majority is a distinct party from the minority, 
and the number of votes over the minority is not taken into 
account ; but the whole numbers of each party is summed up 
seperate, and then in equal proportions to the respective num- 
bers of each party are the law-givers of the land placed at the 
head of national affiiirs. This way of reasoning would not give 
any advantage to the minority, but would place in check the 
majority from placing burdens upon the minority in electing 
a president. Count all the electoral votes of the majority 
party, and then count all the electoral votes of the minority 
party ; subtract the minority votes from the majority, 
then add the minority and majority together, in which 
sum, divide the votes that was over and above the minority, 
and as many times as it goes, those are the votes to take 
out of the whole number of votes in the majority party ; and 
then count the balance in the said party ; also count the 
whole number in the minority, and then the candidate that 
has the highest number of votes is the President. The reason 
I lessened the majority was in order to bring in the minority. 
Had I not have done so, it would have had no power in 
the choice of presidents ; this question of majority and mi- 
nority will in some future day shake the Union to its center. 
I will illustrate and see how far my opinion is true, as it is 
generally conceded that minorities do not rule. 

Should the State of Kentucky hold a convention to frame 
a new State constitution excluding the domestic institution of 
slavery, here the minority could no longer hold slaves, as it 
would be unconstitutional, and would be forced to the alter- 
native of being robbed by wholesale of slave property, and 
tamely submitting to injured wrongs, or sell the slaves and 
move out of the State. Philanthropic men of Kentucky with 
its salubrious clime, do yon call this the rights to which the 
God of nature entitled that freeman should enjoy ? 



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This is calleil a free Republic, but wliat will all its bles- 
sings of civil liberty amount to ^ when the risini^ generation 
takes the place of its predecessors, the slave holding States 
is the minority in Congress, what assurance then has our pos- 
terity, that Southern slavery will become a permanent institu- 
tion as lasting as the decrees of the Almighty, which will remain 
unalterable until the ordeal of His sublime law is consummated, 
heaven will protect Southern planters in holding on to their slaves 
with a tenacious grasp, bordering upon despair, who were given 
to them in order to christianize benighted and heathen Africa. 
Notwithstanding Southern slavery may cause the unenlightened 
public mind to be swallowed up in a vortex of succeeding rev- 
olutions, still the Guardian Protector and Governor of the 
Universe, will eventually sustain the Southern slave planters, 
until contending Northern factions have become obedient to Di- 
vine law, but before this unction takes place, it is very evident 
that a Black Republican President will be elected to a seat in 
the White House in Washington City, then will commence an 
era fraught with the most important events in our nation's his- 
tory that will shock the refinement of the civilzed world. Then 
a Southern united element will absolve from further allegiance 
to a Northern revolutionary element, then the very flood-gatea 
of human blood will be opened, the repeated wrongs of Southern 
rights, which forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, will 
vindicate its honor. Although the South may be weak in the 
number of able-bodied men and its maritime defence, still it* 
glorious cause will be sustained by Heaven, in contending 
against Northern legions. 

The Northern hosts will cower beneath the displeasure of tho; 
Almighty when discovering that the Southerners will conquer 
or die upon the battle-field, while Black Republicanism is in 
power, and the slave-holding States remains in the minority. 
What assurance is there in the security of slave property when 
the general government uses its powerful engine to extinguish 
Southern slavery, which it will attempt to do as soon as it has 
ihe power by Congress to commit a M'holesale robbery of tho 



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entire South and its slave property, including all the slave-hold- 
ing States. This national robbery will betiuconstitutional, and 
where is the right of government to rob its subjects, or even 
to dictate what kind of property the citizens shall hold, if gained 
by honesty and true justice. 

It appears evident from the nature of our political system 
that the governing power does not own slave propert}^ only as 
it degenerates into barbarism, and enslaves its white inhabitants 
in a monarchical despotism which this government is fast ap- 
proaching upon ; a political tyrany more direful than the fabled 
furies when human reason gives waj^ and the combined elements 
are rising and falling like ocean tide; no power but that of 
heaven can stay the bloody attrocities of civil war ; still it is 
better for the South rather than submit to lose its slave property 
and come under the iron rule of Northern despotism, to 
absolve all obligations, allegiance and sovereignty, and estab- 
lish a Southern confederacy independent of Northern oligarchy, 
instituting internal combinations, proclaiming its position a- 
mong the enlightened nations of the earth. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that whenever a 
majority ignores the prosperity, welfare and happiness of the 
minority, and tramples upon its rights with impunity, that it is 
the inalienable rights of the minority no longer to tolerate a 
government, that by its majority refuses to protect the minority 
in person, property, and in the pursuit of happiness. Heaven 
grant the right to the minority to absolve all allegiance with 
the majority and establish a government commensurate with 
the laws of nature and nature's God that is implanted within 
the human soul by the wisdom of Deity. These truths can not 
be confuted by the dogma of the most notorious demagogues or 
the blindest skepticism. You may pore over the musty volumes 
of the heathen mythology,, and what do you discover but a fable 
of heathen superstition : you do not discover the attitude in which 
man stands to government, and government to the Supreme 
Ruler of nations. 

I make still another statement : Amend the United States 



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constitution so as to give the minority the right to elect one-half 
of the officers of go^Tnraent, whicli constitutes the law-making 
power throughout every department of tliis confederacy, or in 
other words, as there consequently will be but two opposing 
political parties, that each party shall share equally in the gov- 
erning power, and in order to give slave-holders some assurance 
in the safety and the protection of their slave property, I will 
mention the names of two national parties, free-soil and pro- 
slavery ; this will furnish an equilibrium of national sovereignty 
in the elective franchise. There will be a sufficient Northern 
Union element to unite with Southern, that no misgiving in the 
rupture of the government seed be apprehended with the co- 
operation of the Union, I have concluded to let Black Kepub- 
licanism sink into eternal infamy. I would have recommended 
a distinct Union party, but it does not culminate at this time. 
February, 1860, with Southern sentiment, as the wound has 
not been healed, inflicted by Old Brown and his Northern con- 
spirators at Harper's Ferrry, Virginia; and until Congress 
passes a law to protect Southern rights, and pay Virginia one- 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars the expense of executing the 
abolition conspirator, before the South would unite with the North 
in organizing a party styled National Union. But I consider 
the pro-slavery under the cognizance as National Union, nor 
do I sincerely believe that the South would withdraw from the 
North, providing that Congress guaranteed ample protectioii 
and insured Southern institutions upon a firm basis, that 
would stand until -abrogated by heaven's supreme law, 
that slavery shall remain in force until divine power sees cause 
to remove it from the face of tlie earth. When fanaticisin seti^ 
itself up as an arbitor of heaven's law, then the Union is in 
danger of tumbling down and becoming a pile of smoldering 
ruins. When a nation's virtue and Christianity is acknowledged, 
then a nation's welfare is progressing and the sunshine of hope 
will again illume the public mind that the rubicon is past, and 
the vampires are no longer preying upon religous liberty. 



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CHAPTER V. 

I will give a brief abstract of my position to keep the Union 
together at all hazards, and to give slavery the same powers 
that is bestowed upon freedom, drawing no geographical line to 
confine slavery to certain limits. It is entitled by the Constitu- 
tion to all the rights that freedom enjoys, and I pledge my 
sacred honor that I shall give my suffrage and influence in sup- 
port of Southern institutions, that slavery may not be trampled 
upon by Northern despotism ; that a territory is not a sovereign 
power ; that slavery may be tolerated, and a territorial legisla- 
ture has no power to exclude slavery ; that a territory is the 
common property of the nation, and when it becomes a State 
admitting slavery, that for Congress to reject receiving it into 
the confederacy, is unconstitutional ; that the people of a terri- 
tory, in forming a State constitution, have the right and sover- 
eign power to receive or reject slavery ; that Stephen A. Douglas 
is the only available candidate for President, to take his seat on 
the 4th of March, 1861. The Honorable Stephen A. Douglas 
is the only wise statesman at this juncture that can reconcile 
Northern rabid abolition element with Southern fire-eating 
element, and four years of his presidential term will give slave- 
holding States time and opportunity to investigate a subject, 
which, in a measure, concerns the future destiny of slavery and 
the welfare of slave-holders. The momentous question is to be 
settled by the slave-holding States holding a general Convention 
at some central point, Nashville, Tenn., or Atlanta Ga., to remain 
in the Union or withdraw, and declare its independence by estab- 



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lishing a Southern North American Republic, assuming its posi- 
tion amons: the nations of the earth. 1 do not advocate so extreme 
a measure as the South withdrawing from tlie North, only upon 
the principles of right and justice, to which every rational being 
is created with. In the sense to which this paragraph is writ- 
ten, I make no allusion to the descendants of Ilam and tlie kind 
of slavery that the God of Heaven has instituted as a Divine Law, 
that no edicts of Northern amalgamation can abrogate. That 
the last council fires of Union has gone out and extinguished 
forever by Northern despotism, and the last expiring hopes of a 
united nation buried in one common tomb ; that is, a nation 
that was once united, but now upon the eve of a mighty revolu- 
tion that will distinguish the ninteenth century in the annals of 
the world. Were these my dying words, and 1 expec;ted soon 
to be in my grave, I would say to the South, bear, for a time, 
indignity and insult before a final separation from the North as 
the last alternative, which is necessity, the mother of invention 
and self-preservation is the first law of nature. But never, 
while warm Southern blood runs within your veins, suffer 
Washington's tomb to be desecrated by Northern despotism. 
Let his tomb remain sacred forever as his soul is mourning over 
the ruins of an enlightened republic, which is upon the eve of 
making ineffectual attempts to establish an empire subject to a 
despot's iron will. 

The North is about to forfeit every claim and every honor in 
the protection of Washington's tomb; and when the thunderings 
of cannon shall reverberate over his tomb in the conflict of 
civil war, and the very flood-gates of disunion will be opened 
as a sacrilige upon Washington's memory, and _^no palliation of 
Northern inroads can appease Southern honor auel heal the 
wound of union, unless Black Republicanism becomes a sacri- 
fice to save*a nation from pillage, rapine and murder; that is, 
the entire disbanding of Black Republicans in rank and file, 
and to be cast to the four winds and no longer cumber the earth 
with a dogma that resembles a charnel-house of putrification, 
fit inmates of pandemonium. 



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Should "black republicanism cease its eternal hostility upon 
Southern institutions, by the election of Stephen A. Douglas to 
the presidency, there will be some just grounds for remaining 
in the Union; by the continued agitation of black republic- 
anism the conflict would come sooner or later, and this is no 
way for an enlightened people to live, in a painful suspense that 
estranges our happiness, and prevents agriculture and commerce 
from becoming true sources to a nation's welfare. But in the 
case of the impending conflict coming to pass, instigated by the 
notorious Helper in his infamous book known as the " Impend- 
ing Crisis;" and what can sustain the author from sinking int» 
eternal intamy ? A nation's apathy and the world's credulity 
cannot save him from oblivion's gulf. I will advocate a measure 
that has a tendency to civilization and to enlighten a continent : 
the North and South to hold separate conventions, irrespective of 
party entangling alliances, and each convention to appoint 
twenty-four of its wisest statesmen, to meet in a general ratify- 
ing convention, with full powers to draft a treaty stipulation to 
a peaceable separation of the North and South, from all entang- 
ling alliances forever, and to be two distinct nations, the North 
to be called the North American Republican Monarchy, under 
the influence of British gold, and in treaty stipulations with the 
Black Republics of Liberia and Hayti. The South to be styled the 
Southern North American Republic, dependent upon its own re- 
sources and treaties of amity and commerce with all civilized na- 
tions, excluding all negro republics until the entire continent of 
Africa becomes enlightened and Christianity prevails throughout 
that benighted land of barbarism; and then, when slaves havebeen 
ransomed by the Disposer of human events and supplanted up- 
on African soil, which, should it ever take place, will be by 
Divine Power, and no power on earth can prevail aj,ainst 
Heaven's irrevocable commands ; where will bo the inconsis- 
tency of extending a national courtesy to what God has acknow- 
ledged as a supreme unction ? Who would be the gainer to fall 
out and get into civil war? Would it make us better christians 
or more loyal subjects to the power that enslaved us, after 



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thousands of brave men were slain in battle? Who would 
wipe awaj the tears of mourning widows and orphans who 
were weeping in heart-rending anguish for the loss of father 
and friends ? I wish to be a peacemaker, and not an instiga- 
tor of civil war. Let the laws of nature and nature's God be 
carried out in every department of government. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

The intelligent reader may have some curiosity to know what 
induced an illiterate author to present himself to the public 
mind, and selected from the world of authors in which criticism 
will cast an odium upon my name and character, unless by 
Christianity and virtue, I can vindicate my honor before the 
world, I will say to the learned critic that while he is getting 
the beam out of my eye, to not forget and remove the mote out 
of his own eye, as none are perfect, no, not one. My answer is 
in worshiping God with a true christian spirit, and the love of 
virtue, the greatest of all causes combined together, with the 
love of country which buoys me up amid the most groveling 
sensuality, and the disunion disorganizers of our country. I 
will stand to the Union until the relics of independence are vio- 
lated, and the Union demolished in a funeral pyre of smoldering 
ruins, which the abolition conspirators are fast hastening to 
bury our liberties in one common tomb, and this will be the in- 
evitable result, whenever Congress attempts to use its power oi 
civil war to enforce the slave-holding States to abolish slavery. 
Then again the power of government may be futile as its armed 
legions may refuse to war upon fathers, brothers, and friends. 
Then I consider the Constitution broke and the government a 
wreck, foundered upon the political sea of commotion; then the 
first steps to be taken in periling our lives, and our sacred hon- 
or, is to found and establish a Southern confederacy, commen- 
surate with the advancement and progress of the nineteenth 
century, to which the signs of the times are tending. The old 



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world 13 upheaving- like a volcanic cauldron. England is 
marching its army to the capital of China, and peradventure 
may quarter its soldiers in the palace of the Emperor of the 
Sun ; while at home it is trembling in fear of Louis Napoleon 
the III, to avenge the cruel treatment of his Uncle upon the 
Island of St. Helena. 

Spain is carrying on an exterminating war with Morocco. 
Italian affairs are unsettled. Hungary is upon the eve of a 
revolt, and universal liberty, like an infection, is catching; and, 
by the time that tlie Hon. Stephen A. Douglas retires from the 
arduous duties as President, the influence of liberty will be 
wafted across the Atlantic, and the culminating point in the 
future destiny of half a continent will have arrived, the slave- 
holding States to come under the vascillatiug bondage of North- 
ern despotism, or like the immortal Patrick Henry, " Give me 
liberty or give me death !" Should there be no possibility of 
the North and Soutli living together in a harmonious Union, 
would it not be wise policy to divide the Union, separate in 
peace and form two distinct governments. Upon a more exten- 
sive view of this august question, Christianity demands it, as 
there is not a union of christian denomination. North and 
South; civilization demands an extension of religious liberty 
throughout the imbecile government of Mexico; and it is fast verg- 
ging to become an easy prey to be annexed to a Soutliern re[)ublic, 
and then those armed bands of robbers and murderers would be 
arrested and brought to justice; there would then be some 
degree of protection and safety to person and property. This 
is the only way that the intestine factions of Mexico will ever 
be settled upon a firm basis. Also, enlightened progress de- 
mands a civil government in the Central American provinces, 
including Yucatan and Isthmus of Darien. As long as the 
North and South remain together in an incessant broil upon 
the question of slavery without coming to ultimate results, a 
barrier will be placed upon any further extension of Southern 
territory in the shape of waning and declining governments upon 
our south-western border, which, under the protecting wing of 



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the bird of Jove, will contribute to an embryo nation in wealth 
and prosperity, which the slave holding States will eventually 
establish upon a firm basis guaranteeing all the inalienable 
rights which man is created with, and obeying the laws of God 
as paramount to those of man, or nations; and no government 
can prosper that ignores the divine mandates of Heaven. The 
commands and laws of our Creator should bear an impress to 
the tomb, that our lineal descendants may transmit to posterity 
an admiring awe of the Great Architect of the universe. When 
barbarism seeks to impugn an enlightened people in a chimera 
of delusive phantasma, its virulence recoils back in the sources 
from whence it came. Thus it is with the Northern abolition 
conspirators in the Harper's Ferry insurrection, more vindictive 
in its horrors of human atrocity than a Cataline, in attempting 
to arm the Virginia slaves with pikes and weapons of death, to 
commit rapine and murder upon innocent virgins. O, Hu- 
manity ! where is thy blush ? Oh ! Indignation, where is thy 
victory ? Oli ! Justice where is thy avenging power, when in- 
carnate fiends in the shape of Northern negro-worsliippers, John 
Brown as chief, must have either been insane or a dupe to the 
influence of British gold, to have the audacity to embroil an 
empire in a civil war. I endorse the brave patriotism of Gov- 
ernor Wise, in executing a retributive justice upon the doomed 
victims that polluted Southern soil. Still I am inclined to some 
mitigation, but martial law demanded the sacrifice, as the Gov- 
ernor of Virginia had established marshal law in the inlected dis- 
trict, at the time of John Brown's execution, as an alarm had 
reached the Honorable Mr. Wise that an army of one thousand 
men from Ohio, were marching to rescue the prisoners; but it 
was a false alarm, and the sequel will fill up the results of those 
Northern vampires, and recoil back in thundering tones upon 
Northern commerce, and shake New England to its center, as 
the cotton mills of Lowell will share in the common ruin, in a 
blight of mill dew, and when the streets of Boston are grown up 
in grass negro shepherds can find employment in herding goats 
and swine upon Boston common, while the charitable institu- 



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tions of modern Athens, hurries off an envoy by Adams & 
Co.'s Express to confer witli the corporated authorities of New- 
Orleans, arrives at the Mayor's office, enters, hat in hand, 
makes a low bow, gets down upon his knees, your most obedient 
servant. " Dear Sir : have I the honor of addressing the au- 
gust mayor of this cotton and sugar metropolis ?" " You have 
that honor." " I am sent here by the City of Notions as a 
minister on a humane mission. I have fourteen dollars in clear 
cash, and that is not my own. I want to purchase one-eighth 
of a cotton-bale to take on to the spindles and looms of Lowell, 
to get it manufactured into relics as memorials of the past, as 
our prosperous days are gone forever, and succeeding revolu- 
tions will swallow up the past in oblivion. Still, we wish to 
transmit some memento of our doom to posterity." The Yan- 
kee ambassador, not having the money to bear his expenses to 
his cold northern liome wanders about the city and strolls into 
a Cumberland Presbyterian Ciiurch, where a large and respect- 
able congregation were taking up a donation to send to the 
starving operatives of Lowell. The Yankee's mission becoming 
known to the officers of the Church, he was entrusted with the 
funds, and was soon on his way to Louisville, Ky., and laid in 
a supply of provisions, proceeded on to gladden the hearts of 
famishing females, caused by a northern intestine faction of 
deluded men, whose fate is sealed, and no monument remain- 
ing; and the only monument remaining in the destruction of 
Sodom, is Lot's wife in a pillar of salt. 

In a few years there will be withdrawn one hundred millions 
of dollars, which will cause the Yankees to open their eyes and 
shake the dust from their garments ; and it is to be hoped by all 
that's sacred upon earth in heaven, that a Northern convention 
will have the wisdom to let the slave-holding States alone and 
remain in peace, by signing a treaty to a Southern confedercy. 

In conclusion, I will add, that, in order to gain the public 
confidence of my Southern compeers and Northern conserva- 
tives, who will stand up in defense of southern rights and 
institutions, I am willing to be placed under oath, and solemnly 



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make the statement that not one drop of abolition blood runs 
through my veins. I am as clear of the foul leprosy as the 
most zealous conservative pro-slavery planter of Louisiana, 
who owns five hunpred slaves. I have not aimed my indig- 
nation as personal. It is true, I have mentioned the name 
of John Brown, which will sink in eternal infamy. 

The reader will please to take my views in the broadest 
sense of the word, as national, which the liberty of speech 
and of the press are the main pillars in the temple of human 
liberty. It is strange, passing strange, that intelligent men 
will, with tenacity, cling to blind opinions, which warp 
their judgment and doom them to continual error. It requires 
the clue of an Ariadne in all the love she could bestow on 

Thesus. Americans, come out of this Cimerian darkness 

disentangle yourselves from these murky clouds that envelope 
you in a charnel-house of putrifaction. 

Should this illiterate treatise be rejected by the American 
people, and after I have gone " to that undiscovered countrv 
from whose bourne no traveler returns," do not dishonor mv 
name. All I ask of the world, is the charity of its sileace. 



EXPLANATORY. 



The author does not come before the ])iiblic with a view t<t 
gather hiurels around liis brow, or to enshrine his name in th** 
empty bubbles of fame, but to instill into the minds of the peo- 
ple, a taste for pure literature, that is interwoven with truth, 
that i;i;norc8 hobgoblins in tales of fiction, which leaves th(^ 
mind in apathy to brood in dreamy horrors over the credu- 
ity of a fictitious fancy, that leaves the mind inert as to all 
the finer feelings of human nature. Come one, comt* 
all, to the rescue ; and clear the a\gean stables from the de- 
mon that has fettered your minds for ages, in a thraldom of 
vascillating bondage, in not giving free scope to the mind, ie 
committing a crime more direful than the fabled furies. 

Perhaps it will not be out of place here, to state a pri- 
mary cause that induced, cr rather impelled, an unlettered 
author to expose himself to the criticism of I<*anied authors, 
and face the censurous calumny of a cold and unfeeling world. 
While an unlettered Indian of the western wilds, can sym- 
pathize for the afflictions of another's woe, as white man stands 
upon an iceberg, with a heart colder than the ice around the 
Northern pole, and would sink the recipients of suft'ering 
humanity into a charnel-house of eternal infamy. Should 
my humble capacity as an author, receive the undivided sup- 
port and patronage of a christian people, I need apprehend 



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no forebodings of discontent, that I can earn an honest liveli- 
hood, and turn an honest penny to enhance mj pecuniarj 
resources, as I am, unfortunately not blessed with good health. 
I am afflicted with nervous headache, chronic rheumatism, 
and dispepsia. My health at twenty-one years of age became 
so impaired, that I was obliged to abandon farming; since 
which time I have traveled in twenty-two States of the Union. 
for my health, until recently I settled in the land of my adop- 
tion (the backwoods of Arkansas). A misanthrope with stoical 
indifference will turn a deaf ear to the plain garb of honest in- 
dustry, at the same time his polluted soul, is covered with a 
iiimsy fabric, that scarcely covers the enormity of his deo-radation. 

All honest employment should receive encouragement even 
from aristocratic wealth. There should be shown some humane 
impulses whose influences would have a tendency to relieve 
indigence and want. But a corrupt sentimentality pervades 
the public mind which ignores all social and moral reforms 
that have a tendency to better and ameliorate the condition of 
mankind. 

However, a long line of centuries will change the programme, 
and a uniformity of opinions will have a more harmonious 
result in religious and political sentiment, and a poor author 
will not be driven from the doors of wealth. 

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